CIIEILANTHES. 99 



Stipes lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate tri-quadripinnate hirsute 

 with longish soft hairs above and, at the margins beneath 

 and on the partial rachis, densely woolly the wool more or 

 less tawny, primary pinnaj ovate the lower two pairs generally 

 remote upper ones more crowded, pinnules small nearly or- 

 bicular obscurely crenato-lobate at the margins the terminal 

 pinnule generally larger and more oblong, the margin recurv- 

 ed and forming the nearly continuous involucres not membra- 

 nous at the edges. (Tab. CVIII. B.) Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 128 ? 

 Schkuhr, Fil. p. 1162, /. 124? Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 456. 

 Ch. lanuginosa, Nutt. MS. in Herb, nostr. Adiantum vesti- 

 tum, " Spreng. Anleit. m. p. 122." Aspidium lanosura, Sw. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 58, (Willd.) Nephrodium lanosum, Mich. Am. 

 ii. p. 270. Notochlaina vestita, Desv. J. Sm. — |3. smaller, 

 tripinnate, primary pinna? all distant. 



Hab. N. America. Not unfrequent in the Southern States ; westward 

 to Texas and El Pasco (New Mexico), C. Wright., n. 818. Missouri, St. 

 Louis, Engelman, (vav. (i) ; Independence, Nuttall, to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in about lat. 52''. California, and New Caledonia, Oregon, Douglas. 

 — What we here describe and figure as Clieilanthes vestita is, we know, the 

 plant so considered by American botanists, and is no doubt the Nephrodium 

 lanosum of Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. (1803), and he properly describes the 

 fronds as "lanosissimse." Swartz, however, who adopts Spreugel's (prior?) 

 specific name, vestita, given in a work to which I have no immediate access, 

 describes the fronds as hispidulous. Schkuhr adopts the same terra, and 

 figures a plant, the under side of which gives no idea of the really woolly 

 nature of the frond ; having, moreover, entire oblong pinnules, with a soli- 

 tary terminal involucre. — The hairs of this species are everywhere crisped 

 and woolly, very dense on the under side, often sparse and deciduous on 

 the upper side. 



Lendigera-group. 



** Very scaly. 



43. Ch. scariosa^ Pr. ; caudex 3 inches and more long de- 

 scending radicose the summit densely crinite with ferruginous 

 chaffy hairs, stipes 1 — 2 inches long and as well as the rachis 

 and lanceolate bipinnate frond (about a span long) clothed 

 above with dense silky wool and beneath everywhere with 

 closely imbricated white diaphanous ovate scales ciliated and 

 villous at the margin often rich brown in the centre, bipinnate, 

 pinnae short lanceolate of 5 — 9 almost globose coriaceous 

 pinnules glabrous above woolly beneath crenato-lobate at the 

 margin, the margins involute and forming the involucres. 

 (Tab. civ. A.) Pr. Reliq. Hank. p. 65. Kunze, in Lin- 

 na;a, ix. p. 85. Acrostichum scariosum, " Willd. Sp. PI. v. 



